This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It argues that all voucher programs are not created equal. There are often fundamental differences in voucher designs that affect public school incentives differently and induce...

This paper considers a major educational reform implemented in Chile, one that increased voucher payments by 50% for students in the lowest 40% of the income distribution. This increased the revenues that schools received for serving low-income students and lowered the relative prices of private...

This research examines the effect of accountability threats for low performing schools on resource allocation decisions and provides evidence that schools act with strategic behavior only when the accountability pressure is high. We used a generalization of a traditional regression discontinuity...